{"id":361,"date":"2009-05-14T09:30:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T07:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tsiblog.potlikker.com\/blog\/?p=361"},"modified":"2009-10-22T03:32:11","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T01:32:11","slug":"building-your-business-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"Building Your Business Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down.&#8221;  This wisdom came from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/seattle\/stories\/2001\/09\/17\/focus24.html\">Kobi Yamada<\/a> and reminds me of the <img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-402\" title=\"women-corpus\" src=\"http:\/\/tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/women-corpus1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"women-corpus\" \/>courage it takes to spread your wings and fly as a woman entrepreneur.  After almost a decade in business, combined with turning 50, my reflection button is pushed on this topic.  Therefore, as a way of honoring courageous women business owners the Women@Work series will launch this month.<\/p>\n<p>To frame this discussion, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensbusinessresearchcenter.org\/research\/keyfacts\/\">U.S. Center for Women&#8217;s Business Research<\/a> found that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three-quarters of all businesses are majority-owned by women (51% or more) for a total of 7.2 million firms employing 7.3 million people, and generating $1.1 trillion in sales<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Women-owned businesses (50% or more) account for 40% of all privately held firms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> 1.9 million firms are majority held (51% or more) by women of color in the United States employing 1.2 million people generating $165 billion in revenues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are no doubt amazing stats which beg the question, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Where do we go from here?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Malcolm Gladwell would, of course, challenge us to follow the consumer for the next <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gladwell.com\/tippingpoint\/index.html\">tipping point<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One tipping point idea came from the May 9, 2009 Le Monde edition of the New York Times article, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ideas for a Small World.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Companies were cited that are tapping into consumer habits and changing the way business is done because of these. Examples included: the desire for smaller grocery stores to cut down on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supermarketguru.com\/index.cfm\">wasted time in long lines<\/a> , replacing those paper-wasting catalogs with USB pen drives ( thank you Christie&#8217;s), and cutting down on packaging to address environmental concerns (e.g. Wal-Mart has been pushing this with their vendors).<\/p>\n<p>How is your business &#8216;shrinking the world&#8217; by finding that next hot trend? I would love to hear from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down.&#8221; This wisdom came from Kobi Yamada and reminds me of the courage it takes to spread your wings and fly as a woman entrepreneur. After almost a decade in business, combined with turning 50, my reflection button is pushed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,9],"tags":[12,23,31,37,41,46,57,58,70,71,85,87,91,92,100,105,106,112,113,115,119,128,129,140,144,167,173,179,182,392],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}